Cairo Features

Cairo Features

• Top Reasons to Go
  

  The First View of the Great Pyramids. Stand at the viewing platform on the Pyramids' plateau and gaze out over the only remaining wonder of the... Read more

• Monastic Life
  

  Copts may elect to join a monastery after they have fulfilled some surprisingly unspiritual requirements. They need to be at least 25 years old... Read more

• The Jewish Community in Cairo
  

  The Chaar-Hachamaim Synagogue was paid for with contributions from some of the most powerful men in Cairo—a small coterie of Jewish families... Read more

• The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization
  

  The Egyptian Department of Culture, in cooperation with UNESCO, has funded the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, which is due to... Read more

• Grand Egyptian Museum
  

  One of the most ambitious architectural designs in the new millennium, the Grand Egyptian Museum will be a fitting home for the mother lode of... Read more